Dinu Lipatti Chopin Concerto #1 1st mvt. - Better sound!

A new remastering I made of the only known complete tape of Lipatti’s fabled 1950 Zurich performance of the Chopin E Minor Concerto with Otto Ackermann conducting, based on a remastering I assisted with in 1999 which was published on the German label ’archiphon’ in 2000. The sound is much clearer than the EMI release, and the piano sound is more faithfully represented. One can hear Lipatti’s huge dynamic range, warm singing sound, clean articulation, and most surprisingly his incredibly vigorous delivery of virtuosic passages, all the more amazing considering how seriously ill he was at the time of this concert. I am uploading this in one complete clip as YouTube is now allowing me to do clips longer than 15 minutes; this transfer was previously viewable in two clips. For more information on the saga behind the discovery and release of this concert recording, please see